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The
next issue of the Community Development
Journal (Volume 38, Number 3) out in July 2003
is a special issue devoted to examining the linkages between
Sustainable Livelihoods and community development.
Edited
by Mary Ann Brocklesby and Eleanor Fisher of the Centre for
Development Studies, University of Wales, Swansea it brings
together papers from practitioners and academics examining
the practice, adaptability and conceptual importance of sustainable
livelihood approaches (SLAs) to community development after
five years of field experience.
Brocklesby
and Fisher provide an overview which examines whether community
development has influenced recent SLAs, arguing that thus
far there has been little influence, and explore the reasons
why this is. Alberto Arce, from Wageningen University provides
a detailed critique of the conceptual underpinnings of SLAs.
In doing so he reminds us that the practical approaches taken-up
by community development practitioners are not theory-neutral
but frame reality in particular ways, which have real and
potentially disastrous implications for the people involved.
Practitioners
with experiences from different parts of the world examine
their own experiences and lessons learnt from using SL approaches
in community development. Articles include experiences in
applying SLAs to a community development process from Oxfam,
Aman Awel Tawe (Wales: sustainable energy NGO) and the Countryside
Agency from the UK. From outside the UK there are shared experiences
on linking SLAs to Socially responsible business globally,
and understanding livelihoods in a rain-fed farming Project
in Eastern India.
Further
information can be obtained from http://www.cdj.oupjournals.org
or http://www.swansea.ac.uk/cds/index.htm.
MaryAnn
Brocklesby
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